Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 38 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 -21 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 331 254 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.62% 6.43% 8.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.82% 37.24% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 214 98 209
10th Percentile £41,975 £40,173 £38,396
25th Percentile £49,438 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -18.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,125 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,074 682 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.97% 17.26% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 841 394 847
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year - +6.18% -5.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire +7 161 £60,000 -7.69% 121
Berkshire +14 107 £61,250 +28.89% 101
Buckinghamshire -8 63 £52,500 -12.50% 44
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.81%) Confluence
3 4 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.21%) SAS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
Applications
1 29 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.51%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.91%) Simulink
4 2 (0.60%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.30%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.30%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 133 (40.18%) Azure
2 115 (34.74%) AWS
3 47 (14.20%) Power Platform
4 45 (13.60%) Azure AI
5 30 (9.06%) GitHub
6 25 (7.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 20 (6.04%) GCP
8 19 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (4.83%) Serverless
10 15 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (4.23%) Cloudflare
12 13 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.97%) DNS
2 32 (9.67%) Firewall
3 17 (5.14%) VPN
4 14 (4.23%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.02%) DHCP
6 9 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (2.72%) Wireless
7 8 (2.42%) SSL
8 7 (2.11%) VLAN
9 6 (1.81%) HTTP
10 5 (1.51%) MQTT
11 4 (1.21%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.60%) IPv4
12 2 (0.60%) IPv6
12 2 (0.60%) SNMP
12 2 (0.60%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (0.30%) DNSSEC
13 1 (0.30%) Network Security
13 1 (0.30%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.60%) Power BI
2 28 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.16%) Tableau
4 14 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.02%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.72%) Metadata
6 9 (2.72%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.72%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.42%) Star Schema
8 7 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
8 7 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.11%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.11%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (1.81%) Airbyte
10 5 (1.51%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.51%) MySQL
11 4 (1.21%) Redis
12 2 (0.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 47 (14.20%) Git
2 21 (6.34%) GitLab
3 20 (6.04%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.63%) JIRA
5 9 (2.72%) JUnit
6 8 (2.42%) JMeter
6 8 (2.42%) LabVIEW
6 8 (2.42%) Mockito
7 6 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.91%) MLflow
10 3 (0.91%) PetaLinux
10 3 (0.91%) Polyspace
10 3 (0.91%) VectorCAST
11 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.60%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.60%) Mocha
11 2 (0.60%) Selenium
12 1 (0.30%) Storybook
General
1 128 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.57%) Manufacturing
3 34 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.85%) Finance
5 16 (4.83%) Aerospace
6 11 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (3.32%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.32%) Retail
7 10 (3.02%) Electronics
8 9 (2.72%) Automotive
8 9 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.11%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.51%) Legal
10 5 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.21%) Banking
12 3 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.91%) Marketing
13 2 (0.60%) Aviation
13 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 88 (26.59%) Software Engineer
2 77 (23.26%) Python Engineer
3 64 (19.34%) Senior
4 60 (18.13%) Python Software Engineer
5 47 (14.20%) Analyst
6 41 (12.39%) C++ Software Engineer
7 28 (8.46%) C# Software Engineer
7 28 (8.46%) Data Analyst
8 25 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 25 (7.55%) Developer
9 24 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (7.25%) Junior
9 24 (7.25%) Junior Analyst
9 24 (7.25%) Junior Data Analyst
10 22 (6.65%) AWS Software Engineer
11 19 (5.74%) Data Engineer
11 19 (5.74%) Java Engineer
12 18 (5.44%) Network Engineer
13 16 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.88%) React
2 27 (8.16%) Terraform
3 22 (6.65%) REST
4 18 (5.44%) JSON
5 17 (5.14%) Django
6 12 (3.63%) HTML
7 11 (3.32%) Node.js
7 11 (3.32%) NumPy
7 11 (3.32%) Pandas
8 10 (3.02%) Spring
8 10 (3.02%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.02%) Vue
8 10 (3.02%) XML
9 8 (2.42%) ActiveMQ
9 8 (2.42%) Apache Camel
9 8 (2.42%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.42%) Hibernate
9 8 (2.42%) jQuery
9 8 (2.42%) Web Services
9 8 (2.42%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.95%) Distributed Computing
2 22 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.83%) Security Operations Centre
5 15 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 14 (4.23%) Algorithms
6 14 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.63%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.63%) Robotics
8 11 (3.32%) Embedded Systems
9 9 (2.72%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (2.72%) Life Science
10 8 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.42%) Fibre Optics
10 8 (2.42%) IoT
10 8 (2.42%) PKI
11 7 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.81%) CCTV
12 6 (1.81%) CSOC
12 6 (1.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (22.05%) Linux
2 34 (10.27%) Windows
3 7 (2.11%) Debian
4 3 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.91%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (0.91%) Gentoo
4 3 (0.91%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (33.84%) AI
2 108 (32.63%) Software Engineering
3 86 (25.98%) CI/CD
4 84 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (21.45%) Agile
6 57 (17.22%) Business Intelligence
7 55 (16.62%) DevOps
8 44 (13.29%) Machine Learning
9 41 (12.39%) Analytics
9 41 (12.39%) Computer Science
10 34 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (10.27%) Data Modelling
10 34 (10.27%) SIEM
11 32 (9.67%) Containerisation
11 32 (9.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (9.06%) Test Automation
13 27 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (8.16%) Mentoring
13 27 (8.16%) Vulnerability Management
14 26 (7.85%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (23.87%) SQL
2 71 (21.45%) C++
3 56 (16.92%) C#
4 45 (13.60%) JavaScript
5 42 (12.69%) Java
5 42 (12.69%) PowerShell
6 37 (11.18%) TypeScript
7 35 (10.57%) Bash
8 13 (3.93%) Go
8 13 (3.93%) MATLAB
9 11 (3.32%) C
9 11 (3.32%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.72%) Rust
11 6 (1.81%) Groovy
11 6 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.51%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.21%) Perl
13 4 (1.21%) Ruby
14 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.30%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 83 (25.08%) Degree
2 49 (14.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 46 (13.90%) Azure Certification
4 38 (11.48%) Security Cleared
5 34 (10.27%) SC Cleared
6 29 (8.76%) Master's Degree
7 22 (6.65%) PhD
8 15 (4.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (2.42%) CISSP
10 7 (2.11%) CompTIA CySA+
11 6 (1.81%) GCIA
11 6 (1.81%) GIAC
11 6 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (1.51%) CCNA CyberOps
12 5 (1.51%) CEH
13 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.30%) CREST Certified
15 1 (0.30%) ICAEW
15 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.46%) QA
2 23 (6.95%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.93%) GDPR
4 7 (2.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.51%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.91%) ECSS
7 3 (0.91%) IEC 61508
7 3 (0.91%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.60%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 45 (13.60%) Docker
2 21 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.04%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.53%) Active Directory
5 12 (3.63%) KVM
6 6 (1.81%) vSphere
7 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.60%) Firmware
8 2 (0.60%) iptables
Systems Management
1 47 (14.20%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.53%) Graylog
3 12 (3.63%) Ansible
4 10 (3.02%) Grafana
4 10 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.72%) Kibana
6 8 (2.42%) Proxmox
6 8 (2.42%) ZABBIX
7 6 (1.81%) Argo
8 4 (1.21%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.21%) Packer
8 4 (1.21%) Podman
9 3 (0.91%) Istio
10 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.30%) QRadar
10 1 (0.30%) WMI
Vendors
1 78 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.34%) VMware
3 12 (3.63%) Splunk
4 9 (2.72%) Databricks
5 8 (2.42%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (2.42%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.42%) IBM
5 8 (2.42%) Veeam
6 7 (2.11%) Cisco
6 7 (2.11%) Informatica
6 7 (2.11%) Talend
7 6 (1.81%) New Relic
7 6 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.51%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.51%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.21%) Thales
10 3 (0.91%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.91%) Xilinx